Peter Sciacca

Peter Sciacca
Aliases	DonCeech Anthony Sciacca Tony Sciacca
Affiliation /Occupation	Unemplyed at the time of the sting
Biographical information
Marital status	Single
Date of birth	December 1, 1967
Place of birth	New Jersey, United States
Date of death	October 12, 2021
Place of death	Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
Physical description
Gender	Male
Height	5'4"
Weight	390lbs.
Eye color	Grey
Hair Color	Brown

"Get that camera outta my face, please!"

^{-Peter being gracefully defiant}

Peter Sciacca (pronounced "Ska-ka") was a predator involved in the Fortson, Georgia edition of To Catch a Predator. He is best known for being the morbidly obese predator caught in the sting.

Biography

Peter was thirty-eight-years-old and unemployed at the time he began chatting with "Brian," a boy he believed to be fourteen-years-old. Like many suspected predators, Peter tried at first to seem like both a mentor and protector to the boy, who pretended to be living in a broken home, asking him if he was comfortable in his sexuality and to be careful when he was in chatrooms. It didn't take long for Peter to turn it up a notch and start to ask him about the things he likes to do sexually. The decoy expressed frustration about not being able to come out in his conservative neighborhood, fearing physical assault. Peter replied to this by asking if he wants a secret lover. Over the next week, they chatted on and off to make a date for when Peter could come over and have oral sex with the decoy. They also spoke over the phone where they talked about getting away from Georgia together. As the decoy expresses boredom in the conversation and tried to get off the phone, Sciacca tried coaxing the decoy to remain on the phone to no avail.

Sting and arrest

Peter would drive two hours in his Hummer H3 SUV from the Atlanta suburb of Norcross to the sting house. It is drizzling outside when he pulls up. He automatically figures out something is wrong when Del Harvey, as the decoy, comes out with her face covered up trying to wave him in. Her voice is several octaves lower than the decoy Peter spoke with on the phone, who sounded like he was still growing into his voice. She also put a southern twang into her voice, which the phone decoy did not have. Suspicious, Peter asks Del to take her hat off to get a better look and heads back to his car when she refuses. He is quickly arrested by officers from the Harris County Sheriff's Office, never getting a chance to be confronted by Chris Hansen. As he was being carted away, the Dateline camera crew zoomed in on his face, to which Peter politely asked for them to get the camera out of his face.

Sentence and death

On February 19, 2007, Peter was convicted and found guilty on criminal attempt to commit child molestation and criminal attempt to commit sodomy. He was sentenced to ten years in prison with a minimum of five years to serve, fifteen years of probation, and lifetime registration as a sex offender. He was paroled and released from prison on May 24, 2011. Peter moved to Florida where he is still appears on their sex offender page. He later moved back to Georgia.

Due to Peter's passing on October 12, 2021, a petition to terminate his probation was submitted to the Harris County, Georgia court on July 13, 2022. On August 5, 2022, its was authorized. Peter's cause of death is unknown and his status has not been updated on the Florida registry, as he is still listed as "Released - Subject to Registration."

Trivia

• "Don Cheech" was the nickname of infamous New York crime boss Frank Scalice.
• Chris Hansen mispronounces Peter's last name as "See-kah" in his post-production voiceover.
• ”Don Cheech” is also the name of a restaurant in Staten Island New York.